Rutherford, NJ, June 06, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The
William Carlos William Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County features poet, publisher, and entrepreneur Ice Gayle Johnson this Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 7:00 p.
(I'll return to The Autobiography of
William Carlos Williams shortly because I sense it intimates a Williams that is possibly different from the one presented in this study.) Copestake is often a talented close reader, providing several nuanced interpretations of poems from different stages of Williams's career, although much of the textual analysis quite properly engages Paterson, given the poem's emphasis on the fraught intersection between the local and the poet's mind (which for Copestake is where the Unitarian ethos and Williams's poetics are most clearly mapped out).
1971 "
William Carlos Williams' theory and practice of poetic measure", Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 3: 121-129.
"Among the poets of his own illustrious generation," John Malcolm Brinnin has written, "
William Carlos Williams has been the man on the margin, the incorrigible maverick, the embattled messiah."
(It travels to Venice this month, and eventually will enter the repertoire of the Deutsches Theater.) Still ahead: Spielzeit'Europa approaches the dark winter months with a shadowy adaptation of Crime and Punishment directed by Andrea Breth, originally commissioned for the Salzburg Festival, and described by critic Andrew Patner as "a very German take on a very Russian novel." And January brings the premiere adaptation of book four of
William Carlos Williams's dramatic poem Paterson, directed by Thorsten Lensing and Jan Hein and titled The Run to the Sea.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), a pediatrician and poet, came to mind right away, Dr.
William Carlos Williams? Ride herd over the Senate like Dr.
Note: The letter from
William Carlos Williams to his friend and
That's certainly the case in Smart People, a pithy coming of middle age story about a fusty university professor who can wax lyrical about the poems of
William Carlos Williams but is incapable of stringing together three monosyllabic words: I, love, you.